# KopiaUI - how to delete snapshot

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopiaui-how-to-delete-snapshot/182>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopiaui-how-to-delete-snapshot/182 "2020-10-14T08:34:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![dragonnn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/dragonnn/32/66_2.png) [@dragonnn](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/dragonnn)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopiaui-how-to-delete-snapshot/182/1 "2020-10-14T08:34:06Z")

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Hi!  
How can I delete a snapshot from KopiaUI? I mean I have add a folder with I don’t want and can not delete it. Is this option missing?

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**Author:** ![jkowalski](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/jkowalski/32/3_2.png) [@jkowalski](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/jkowalski)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopiaui-how-to-delete-snapshot/182/2 "2020-10-15T04:57:40Z")

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This is currently not available in the UI but will be added. In the meantime you can delete snapshots from CLI using `kopia snapshot ls` followed by `kopia snapshot delete <snapshot-id>`.

If you have UI installed, it actually comes with CLI too, see this answer:

> [@New user with some questions please](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/new-user-with-some-questions-please/172/2):
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> Let me take a stab: Each snapshot represents one folder or file. GUI does not support verifying integrity of snapshots yet, but it’s indirectly done as part of maintenance. Unfortunately errors are not shown in the UI yet. Using command line you can verify all snapshots with: $ kopia snapshot verify --all-sources CLI and UI will only show the percentage completed and estimated time. Throughput can be derived from the amount uploaded and time spent so far, but it’s more complicated s…

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**Author:** ![wayland](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/wayland/32/268_2.png) [@wayland](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/wayland)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopiaui-how-to-delete-snapshot/182/3 "2021-12-30T20:59:45Z")

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> [@jkowalski](#):
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> available

Hi

What if the snapshot path has many snapshots? Will it erase all from the repo therefor will make it removed from the UI list as well?